Windows Azure pre-purchase offer

Microsoft’s cloud system – Windows Azure – is being used in education more widely, and there are plenty of conversations going on about how educational partners can move their applications to be hosted on Windows Azure to reduce the cost of expanding their service (because you can just expand a service as your customer base grows without having to go and buy more servers, data centre space etc etc). The same logic applies to education institutions developing new services (especially where it can be tricky to deploy new technology on-site).